Aleshtar () is a city in the Central District of

Selseleh County Selseleh County () is in Lorestan province, Lorestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Aleshtar. Demographics Ethnicity The county is populated by Kurds. Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the county's population ...

Lorestan Lorestan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Khorramabad. Lorestan is in the western part of the country in the Zagros Mountains and covers an area of 28,392 km2. In 2014 it was placed in Region ...

province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Demographics

Ethnicity

The city is populated by

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-speaking

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 28,306 in 6,033 households. The following census in 2011 counted 30,257 people in 7,606 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 33,558 people in 9,294 households.

Climate

Aleshtar has a

mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...

(''Csa'') in

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...

with influences of

continental climate Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters). They tend to occur in central and eastern parts of the three northern-tier continents (North America, Europe, and Asia), typi ...

(''Dsa'') as mean daily temperatures are near the freezing point in winter. Summers are dry and hot with very low precipitation from June to September.

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